Thank you Alex Au for this little corner on Yawning Bread

henry, I shan’t bother to respond to your first four paragraphs as, really, it’s typical not-in-my-face excuses for discrimination masquerading as tolerance. despite not being polite enough to avert your eyes (oh, what an imposition that must be) you still claim you see your gay friends as equal. well, if you say so. But let me touch on “coming out”. Coming out is only a big deal because people like you in society continue to perpetuate the idea that being gay is a big deal, that it is a deviation to be avoided and at best tolerated (for which LGBT folk must be so amazingly grateful for). There won’t be a need to come out if homosexuality was seen to be about as deviant as being left-handed. As a (Singaporean) student in Britain this is the prevailing attitude among my European friends. Mention that you are gay, and the response is along the lines of “oh ok.” The only thin...